Semantic analysis (computational) within
applied linguistics
Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, Communication stu ...
and
computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...
, is a composite of
semantic analysis and computational components. ''Semantic analysis'' refers to a formal analysis of meaning,
and ''computational'' refers to approaches that in principle support effective implementation in digital computers.
[Blackburn, P., and Bos, J. (2005), ''Representation and Inference for Natural Language: A First Course in Computational Semantics'', Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. .]
See also
*
Computational semantics
Computational semantics is the study of how to automate the process of constructing and reasoning with semantics, meaning representations of natural language expressions. It consequently plays an important role in natural language processing, nat ...
*
Natural language processing
Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of computer science and especially artificial intelligence. It is primarily concerned with providing computers with the ability to process data encoded in natural language and is thus closely related ...
*
Semantic analytics
Semantic analytics, also termed ''semantic relatedness'', is the use of ontologies to analyze content in web resources. This field of research combines text analytics and Semantic Web technologies like RDF. Semantic analytics measures the relate ...
*
Semantic analysis (machine learning)
In machine learning, semantic analysis of a text corpus is the task of building structures that approximate concepts from a large set of documents. It generally does not involve prior semantic understanding of the documents.
Semantic analysis st ...
*
Semantic Web
The Semantic Web, sometimes known as Web 3.0, is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The goal of the Semantic Web is to make Internet data machine-readable.
To enable the encoding o ...
*
SemEval
SemEval (Semantic Evaluation) is an ongoing series of evaluations of computational semantic analysis systems; it evolved from the Senseval word sense evaluation series. The evaluations are intended to explore the nature of meaning in language. ...
References
Further reading
* Chris Fox (2010), "Computational Semantics", In Alexander Clark, Chris Fox, and Shalom Lappin, editors
''The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing'' Malden, MA:
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publish ...
, 394–428.
* Agirre, Eneko, Lluis Marquez & Richard Wincentowski (2009)
"Computational semantic analysis of language: SemEval-2007 and beyond" ''
Language Resources and Evaluation'' 43(2):97–104
Computational linguistics
Natural language processing
analysis (computational)
Computational fields of study
{{Comp-ling-stub